Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Temporal's Developer Productivity Team as a Senior Software Engineer, focusing on observability. You will lead the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance. This mission-critical role requires expertise in building scalable, resilient, distributed systems and experience with observability and data streaming. You'll collaborate with stakeholders, design and implement features, and participate in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses a user-first mindset, strong technical skills, and excellent communication abilities. Temporal offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• User-first mindset. You’re excited by the opportunity to empower others through tooling, and enjoy deeply internalizing user goals and use cases to build effective solutions
• Motivated by impact. You are driven by a desire to make positive things happen
• Strong opinions about tools and technology that are equally balanced by a pragmatic drive for impact
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop horizontally scalable, resilient, and high performance distributed systems in a production environment
• Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting large scale, geographically distributed observability and/or high throughput data streaming/processing pipelines, or similar
• Expert in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go
• Expert-level Kubernetes skills
• Expert-level query development skills, preferably SQL
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers, preferably AWS, or GCP
• Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking
• Familiarity with best practices regarding monitoring, instrumenting, and configuring infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle: goals & requirements solicitation, design & review, implementation, operationalization & deployment, support & maintenance
• Formulate feature designs, review with stakeholders, iterate to incorporate feedback and drive consensus
• Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and manage the software you develop
• Provide appropriate test and production readiness coverage for unit, integration, and performance of your feature ownership area
• Set a high bar for technical excellence and take pride in the software you develop
• Design and build multi-component, distributed systems that operate at scale
• Investigate issues with a methodical approach to identify a root cause
• Understand performance and reliability implications of design options at scale. Make related tradeoffs
• Able to participate in the team’s on-call rotation
• Investigate and understand ways to best leverage Temporal’s own software to power our mission
• Deeply understand the needs of Temporal internal developers and external customers, and leverage that knowledge for product development and feature design
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to design of other features
• Share design principles for building reliable systems at scale

Benefits

• The estimated pay range for this role is $150,000 - $210,000, depending on qualifications and location
• This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness